acharya@NEON.STANFORD.EDU (Shripati Acharya) (06/08/90)
I want to test Andrew Mail system in a single machine environment. I have set up the White pages database. The installation instructions say that the "name of the installation should be same as the AFS cell name and one Post office machine must have the same name as the AFS cell". Since there are no PO m/c in a single machine case, is this a problem? In other words if my machine name is not same as the domain name, is there any way to specify that to AMS? This is in relation to the following error on testing trymail: trymail -F /.login "<acharya>" acharya 222 acharya@ir.stanford.edu (B-tree: No such file or directory) 999 End. Shripati --------
Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (06/08/90)
I'm confused as to what you're trying to test. If you're running AMDS and AFS together, which is a fine idea, there are some things that you can't necessarily do as a single machine. However, you shouldn't have any problems yet in your testing. (Of course, your WP has two distinct entries with name ``Shripati Acharya'', one with id ``acharya'' and forwarding address ``acharya@neon.stanford.edu'', and the other with id ``shripati'' and no forwarding address.) I am probably the best person to help you sort out what's happening. My phone number is 412-338-4467. To get started, you can try using the ``-D'' option to trymail as well as the -F option. That is, try echo acharya | trymail -F -D /.login "<acharya>" and see what happens. There are several little test programs that you can build, reasonably automatically, to see just what's going haywire. To your specific question, how does AMDS know to use your cell name: it does the AFS pioctl that asks what cell the workstation is configured to use. I recommend the ANDREWDIR/help/setup.help file, describing the AndrewSetup file, to your reading. But give a call if you get stuck again. Craig